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Story: Microsoft shakes up Software Assurance

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The main problem is still that Microsoft decides for you. It's still: our way or the high way. So much for customer awareness and satisfaction. And I think that this attitude, overall, speaks bundles about how sure Microsoft is about being able to compete with competitors on more equal grounds. Meaning things like quality, reliability, value for money, ability to switch and so on. Do keep in mind Microsoft's R&D budget compared to others.

To me this says more then enough and really all I need to know. Microsoft hasn't changed it's attitude, only the wrapping it presents its products in. Since I find attitude much more important then wrappings I won't be recommending this new Microsoft program to many of my customers. If you decide to recommend this new Microsoft program to your customers then excuse me for questioning your motives or capabilities. I think there are better options available. Not easy ones, but better ones. Yes, you do need to work to make an honest living.

Key to me is that the more easier it is to get rid of something but people won't, the more it says about how good it really is.

Fact is that it is hard to get rid of Microsoft. But people are trying (and doing) nevertheless. And it is easy to get rid of, say, Novell, but plenty of people won't. And not because they're zealots (as if everybody within a company chain of command would be a zealot).

Hence, Novell, Linux, Microsoft. NLM.

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